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To: JF Quinnelly who wrote (13762)	10/21/1998 8:15:00 AM
From: Ish	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71178

<<How did the farming change so that you don't have as much game?>> Prior to the 70's we had a lot of hedge rows which made excellent winter cover. When ground got up to $3,000 per acre the hedges went. Also most farmers had a few head of livestock so that made for hay fields for nesting. Also they didn't have the storage capacity so some corn was left standing through January and there was no fall plowing. Now all the grain is harvested early and mechanically dried and the fields are plowed by Thanksgiving. The modern chemicals have done away with weeds and bugs, both used by pheasants and quail. No nesting, no food and no shelter equals no game left. Oddly we are now infested with deer which were gone from the state in the 40's and 50's. They do well in the country subdivisions.